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shingle ” as a homoeopath; at the same time, he is a firm 
believer in small dosage ; one of the most useful drugs he has 
used is veratrum vivide ; he has used it for a number of years 
for all sthenic troubles, and all sthenic febrile conditions from 
whatever cause, in small doses, repeated frequently. In speak¬ 
ing of the difference in the action of drugs in different cases, he 
said that he had a 16000-pound horse that morning sick with 
azoturia ; he had given a hypodermic injection of a two-and-a- 
half grains of morphine and less than a grain of atropine at io 
A.M.; at 4 P.M. the horse was “blind as a bat.” At other times 
he has given as much as forty grains of morphine and five 
grains of atropine, and has not had the same results ; on the 
other hand, he has seen a horse crazy from a grain-and-a-half 
of morphine and a quarter-of-a-grain of atropine. 
Dr. Carlton thought the result in these cases was due to the 
atropine being in excess. 
Dr. Winchester said it is a fact that we can give some 
horses proportionately a much greater amount than others. 
Dr. Osgood thought Dr. Winchester gave an excessive dose 
in combination ; he had never seen a horse get five grains of 
morphine and one grain of atropine without going crazy. The 
combination intensifies the action of both drugs. In the horse, 
opium has the same action as belladonna. 
Dr. LaBaw cited a case he had seen in Springfield with Dr. 
Osgood, who had given a grain-and-a-half of morphine and 
three-quarters-of-a-grain of atropine in two doses. When he 
(Dr. LaBaw) arrived, some time later, he found the horse press¬ 
ing his head against the wall with dilated pupils. 
Dr. Osgood believed that in aconite, small doses repeated, 
are better than large ones. After some further discussion, Dr. 
Winchester moved than a vote of thanks be given the essayist. 
Seconded by Dr. Winslow and carried unanimously, 
Dr. Bryden then read an interesting paper on “Quittor.” In 
the discussion which followed, Dr. Bryden said that the average 
time he allowed for a true quittor to heal was seven months. 
Dr.* Marshal said that when he was with the street railroad 
